Cardinals Host Duke Saturday Afternoon at the KFC Yum! Center

GAME 27
Date: Feb. 20, 2016
Time: 12:01 p.m.
Site: KFC Yum! Center/Crum Court, Louisville, Ky. (22,000) (97-14 in 6th yr.)
Television: ESPN - Dave O'Brien, play-by-play; Dick Vitale, analyst; Allison Williams, reporter
Radio: WHAS (840 AM) Paul Rogers, play-by-play; Doug Ormay, analyst (Sirius channel 84, XM 84) Also: Compass Media Networks - Drew Bontadelli, play-by-play; Mike Wozniak, analyst.
Series History: UofL trails 4-7 (1-2 in Louisville, 1-2 in Durham, 2-3 neutral)
Last Meeting: Duke 72, Louisville 65 (Feb. 8, 2016 at Durham, N.C.)
UofL National Ranking: 18^th Associated Press
Officials: Brian Dorsey, Joe Lindsa, Brian O'Connell
Next UofL Game: Feb. 24 at Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa., 8 p.m. ET (ACC Network)

Louisville plays its second straight in the KFC Yum! Center as the Cardinals face the Duke Blue Devils on Saturday. UofL will wear special retro uniforms designed with elements from 1980s UofL teams and UofL's 1986 NCAA Championship team will be honored at halftime on their 30th anniversary. Louisville won 72-58 on Wednesday against a Syracuse team that had won five straight and eight of their last nine.

The Cardinals are led by two players averaging double figures, Damion Lee leads the duo of top scorers with 16.5 points per game. Trey Lewis ranks second on the team in scoring with 12.3 per game. Chinanu Onuaku leads the team in rebounding with 8.6 per game while averaging 9.7 points per game. Quentin Snider also leads the team in assists with 3.7 per game while averaging 9.6 points.

As a team, the Cardinals are shooting 47.8 percent from the field while holding opponents to 38.1 percent shooting. Louisville leads the nation in scoring margin, defeating opponents by an average of 17.0 points per game. The Cards are also averaging 39.8 rebounds and 13.6 assists per game.

Duke (20-6, 9-4 ACC), ranked 20th by AP and 19th in the USA Today poll, has won five straight, including a 74-73 victory at North Carolina on Feb. 17 as Grayson Allen scored 23 points and Brandon Ingram added 20 points and 10 rebounds.

Allen, a sophomore guard, is second in the ACC in scoring (20.7 ppg, 19th in the nation) and is fifth in minutes played (35.5 mpg). Through Feb. 17, Duke is 15th nationally in scoring (83.1), 10th in fewest turnovers (10.0), 23rd in scoring margin (+12.1) and 22nd in three-point field goal percentage (.391). Duke is 13th in the RPI and seventh in the Sagarin Ratings through Feb. 17. Louisville trails 4-7 in its series with Duke, but the Cardinals have won four of the last seven matchups. Duke won 72-65 in Durham, N.C. earlier this season (2-8-16).

The Cardinals earned their second national title as the Cardinals prevailed 72-69 over Duke in the 1986 NCAA Championship game behind Final Four Most Outstanding Player Pervis Ellison's 25 points, 11 rebounds and two blocked shots (3/31/86). Louisville beat the Blue Devils 85-63 in the 2013 Midwest Region championship in Indianapolis, Ind. en route to the Cardinals' third NCAA title (3-31-13).

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Louisville has won 20 games for the 14th straight season. The Cardinals are one of four schools to have won 20 or more games each of the past 14 seasons (also Kansas, Duke and Gonzaga).
Chinanu Onuaku was honored on the CoSIDA Academic All-District team, one of four ACC players with the recognition. He has eight double-doubles in ACC play, including 13 points, a career-high matching 15 rebounds and 4 assists vs. Syracuse.
Louisville's academic performance in the 2015 fall semester was impressive, with 13 of 15 men's basketball student-athletes achieving a 3.0 or better grade point average. The Cardinals posted a collective 3.36 GPA for the 2015 fall semester, just short of the team record of 3.47 achieved in 2013.
Louisville's 143 victories over the last five years are the second-most wins in the nation in that stretch.
UofL leads the nation in scoring margin (+17.0), is seventh in scoring defense (60.7), eighth in field goal percentage defense (.381), 11th in rebound margin (+8.7) and 12th in offensive rebounds (14.1).
With five games remaining, Damion Lee needs 50 points to reach 2,000 for his career, including his three seasons at Drexel. Trey Lewis needs 17 points for 1,500 career points, including his time at Penn State and Cleveland State. Lee has scored in double figures in 23 of his 25 games this season while Lewis has 18 double-digit scoring efforts.

Cardinals Host Duke Saturday Afternoon at the KFC Yum! Center

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Players Mentioned

Damion Lee

Trey Lewis

Chinanu Onuaku

Quentin Snider

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